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08-15-2005, 04:17 PM
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Same system w/ new mobo doesn't boot
I just put a new mobo and proc into my son's computer. I've done this before on his machine, and all I had to do was boot into safe mode and change the drivers. This time it didn't work. The machine goes through POST just fine, but it blue screens as it tries to boot into Windows. I can't even get it to go into safe mode or safe mode with command prompt. His new mobo is an ASUS A7N8X-X with an Athlon XP 2800+ proc. We are running Windows XP SP2 on the machine. I already emailed Microsoft, but I was wondering if anyone here has any ideas as to what the problem could be?
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08-15-2005, 05:12 PM
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This is a kind of grey area. As you've found, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
A motherboard change, being such a major piece of hardware, is very likely to cause the computer not to boot. Undoubtadly the best course of action is to wipe the drive and install a fresh copy of XP (this is recommended even if the hard drive boots with the new hardware). Freakitchen
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08-15-2005, 05:43 PM
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You need to do a repair reinstall of XP. Boot with the CD, choose Setup (not repair), then when it finds the existing installation, choose repair.
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